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Frank Strong
about 7 hours ago
Lonesome Dove was also included among the hundreds of books New Braunfels ISD removed from its libraries this year.
www.txftrp.org/new_braunfel...
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New Braunfels ISD bans 600+ books, ages up 800+ titles using AI & overly-restrictive selection criteria.
Lonesome Dove, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Guinness World Records & The Three Musketeers among hundreds of books removed from school library collections.
https://www.txftrp.org/new_braunfels_isd_bans_600_books
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Frank Strong
about 7 hours ago
La Vernia ISD—which used AI to review its collection—banned Lonesome Dove this year, along with classics like Their Eyes Were Watching God, All the Pretty Horses (another Texas standard), Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
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Frank Strong
about 7 hours ago
Before Senate Bill 13 passed in Texas last year,
@jamestalarico.bsky.social
pointed out that its language was so broad it could lead to the removal of Texas classic Lonesome Dove from schools. Guess what? He was right.
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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games
about 7 hours ago
I don't suspect many of you here on bluesky (esp. who see my posts / aren't on any block list I subscribe to) are falling for this trash but reminder to talk to your non bluesky friends and family about it, however much you can nudge them to mess up their lives even a little less is time well spent
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Gillian Brockell
about 8 hours ago
1000%. I've recorded ICE trips lasting 82, 75, 69, 59 and 51 hours, just since November. All on Omni Air International. The two longest ones I confirmed with passengers and/or passengers' attorneys they were shackled the whole time. Wrote about the clot risk here:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/
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poetrydeer
about 10 hours ago
"Be Gay Do Crime does not apply to George Santos." me, to
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Rep. LaMonica McIver
about 10 hours ago
Mullin oversees DHS, has never been to Delaney Hall, but still lies to the public about what happens there. I’ve seen what it’s like with my own eyes and spoken with detainees about ICE abuse. In Committee on Homeland Security, I let Mullin know the truth: Delaney is cruel, unsanitary, unsafe.
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derek guy
about 10 hours ago
Met a young person who can't find a job bc of AI. His elderly mom is sick and needs home care. He drives Uber to pay rent, but is barely getting by. I told him the White House pool is going to be longer than US skyscrapers and he burst out crying. "Thank you sir," he said, "I needed that."
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Andrew Quemere
about 11 hours ago
Outrageous. A judge found that New Bedford illegally withheld public records from the New Bedford Light but refused to order the city to pay the publication's legal fees.
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Judge: City does not have to pay legal fees to The New Bedford Light - The New Bedford Light
The judge had ordered the city to release four public records to The Light in August 2025.
https://newbedfordlight.org/judge-city-does-not-have-to-pay-legal-fees-to-the-light/
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Jamie Schwesnedl
about 16 hours ago
ICE is grabbing our neighbors infrequently enough for most people to feel comfortable and let their guard down, but the number of kidnappings/abductions/arrests seems to be growing in the last couple weeks. SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS - are you all signed up for signal urgent alerts? GET SIGNED UP!
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Eric Geller
about 11 hours ago
Several secretaries of state tell Bloomberg that intelligence agencies are no longer briefing them on election security threats, with one also saying that CISA has stopped conducting some security tests for states.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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US Stops Sharing Crucial Election Threat Data With State Officials
Classified briefings and some cybersecurity services have ceased.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-03/us-stops-sharing-crucial-election-threat-data-with-state-officials
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Jamie Dupree
about 10 hours ago
For the first time, the House has voted to approve a war powers resolution to end the military conflict with Iran
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ryan cooper
about 13 hours ago
lol
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TW
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T. Greg Doucette
about 18 hours ago
A reminder that all it takes to overturn a Constitutional amendment is 5 justices on SCOTUS
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 11 hours ago
You can: 1) Contact your senators and reps, especially in coastal states. 2) Urge scientific societies and advocacy groups to speak out and mobilize their members. 3) Write op eds, posts, threads, etc. explaining what the OOI actually does and why it matters. 4) Share articles like this:
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Trump Administration to Remove Hundreds of Deep-Ocean Observation Instruments, Dismantling $368 Million Program - Eos
The Trump administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has begun dismantling the infrastructure of a $368 million deep-ocean observing program critical to monitoring marine ecosystems, global cu...
https://eos.org/research-and-developments/trump-administration-to-remove-hundreds-of-deep-ocean-observation-instruments-dismantling-368-million-program
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 11 hours ago
This is the playbook: cut observation systems, reduce monitoring, shrink scientific capacity, and then claim there's insufficient evidence that there's a problem. Without data, you cut regulations and legal pathways off at the knees. Turning off the instruments doesn't actually make the world safer.
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 11 hours ago
Trump has ordered the removal of instruments from sites off Alaska, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, and the North Atlantic near Greenland and Iceland. Once these sensors are removed, real-time observations stop. This will create gaps in our understanding we will never be able to fill.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
about 11 hours ago
A nation scooping its own eyes out with a spork
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James Ball
about 11 hours ago
When he finally learns about rivers it's gonna blow his tiny MIND
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Matthew Gertz
about 11 hours ago
I guess we're really never getting the strait opened.
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Jacquelyn Gill
about 11 hours ago
In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.
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Scott Haile
about 1 month ago
This should be a much bigger story A priceless collection of art has gone missing during trump's chaotic and secretive renovation of the Kennedy Center
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Ex-Kennedy Center staffer alleges chaos and cronyism under Trump leadership
Unless courts intervene, the Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial reb...
https://share.google/EgXWR11JELf6y6NRg
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Maris Kreizman
about 12 hours ago
Why the fuck do AI companies think we want this
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Amanda Carpenter
about 11 hours ago
Kaitlan Collins doesn’t need to smile for Trump. Nobody does.
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Ryan Marino, MD
about 14 hours ago
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ACLU
about 11 hours ago
Justice Sotomayor is right, writing that this “debases the democratic process by upending Alabama’s entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians. It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders.”
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ACLU
about 12 hours ago
The Supreme Court's order shamefully allows Alabama to use the same congressional map the court struck down three years ago for racial discrimination. This lawless decision ignores the Court’s own precedent — and has no answer to the evidence showing this map is unconstitutional.
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Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map
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The Informant
about 11 hours ago
NEW: Ex-Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, recently sat for a friendly interview on a neo-Nazi podcast.
www.informant.news/robert-j-one...
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Ex-Navy SEAL appears on neo-Nazi podcast
From SEAL Team 6 to chatting with a pro-Hitler podcaster.
https://www.informant.news/robert-j-oneill-stew-peters-nazi/
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ryan cooper
about 12 hours ago
of all the Trump shit it is hardest to convince normies of this is the toughest one. it doesn't fit into their brains
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ryan cooper
about 12 hours ago
it's not remotely an exaggeration. he might as well have worked for ISIS
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...
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Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past associ...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
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Ohio Todd
about 11 hours ago
I was just thinking about how Trump reached out to David Axelrod in 2010 about building a ballroom at the Whitehouse "for free" and there's a timeline where Obama put in The Trump Ballroom early in his second term, birtherism never takes off and Hillary narrowly defeats Rubio in 2016
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dell cameron
about 11 hours ago
some sadist in a room full of antique furniture and piles of pastries on little silver trays: “if they can’t work they should just die.”
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Ian Boudreau
about 11 hours ago
Calling it now. Knowing strip mall karate is the next growth industry
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Jason Koebler
about 13 hours ago
A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works:
www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...
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Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor
"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)
about 12 hours ago
Also, by Crom, please let me be able to buy a new more efficient TV with a better picture without loading it with crap and spyware. *I* will put plenty of crap of my own on it, thank you very much.
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Denny Carter
about 15 hours ago
There's a 100 percent chance Trump regime officials are betting on Wold Cup games on Kalshi and will do what it takes to make those bets pay
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Denny Carter
about 15 hours ago
hmmmm why would the regime stop a **swiss** soccer player from entering ..... oh i see
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Tom Broderick
about 12 hours ago
The inevitable logic of local control at all levels is trying to maximize exclusion, resource hoarding *and* state tax dollars to fund the exclusion and hoarding
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
about 18 hours ago
Much of what enabled Chicago to withstand midway blitz was built by abolitionists and little of it has been credited to them. Thinking (and writing) about that. The city's expanded sanctuary protections, for instance, came directly out of this energy.
southsideweekly.com/know-your-mo...
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Know Your Movements: The #EraseTheDatabase Campaign
Meet the organizers working to reform and abolish the city’s gang database.
https://southsideweekly.com/know-your-movements-the-erasethedatabase-campaign-gang-database/
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Chris Geidner
about 17 hours ago
I said it, meant it, and then got to work to explain why:
www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ala...
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Andrew Quemere
about 15 hours ago
What a shock: After I filed an appeal pointing out how this made no sense, the department admitted that it wasn't true. They will straight-up lie about public records, because they know a lot of people will just go away instead of challenging them.
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Andrew Quemere
about 15 hours ago
“A Canton police sergeant who worked the initial investigation in Karen Read’s murder case has resigned following allegations that he exchanged eyebrow-raising messages with the case’s lead investigator, former Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor.”
#Massachusetts
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Canton police sergeant allegedly linked to Proctor texts has resigned
Canton Police Sgt. Sean Goode, who worked the early investigation in Karen Read’s murder case, had been on leave since last fall.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/03/canton-police-sergeant-allegedly-linked-to-proctor-texts-has-resigned/
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Josh Gerstein
about 14 hours ago
OVERLOOKED: DHS Secy Mullin said during Senate Appropriations hearing yesterday that he's "happy" to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica if they will take him. Doc:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Earlier:
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28187588-abregoflg060326/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 14 hours ago
The farce continues. ICE and DOJ's official position to Judge Xinis is that it would be "prejudicial" to the United States national interest to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica and not Liberia. Then at a hearing, Secretary Mullin says he'd be "happy" to send him there.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
about 13 hours ago
Thanks to UChicago's Urbanism Lab, you can create your own map of every location, for free.
urbanism.uchicago.edu/courses/chic...
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Build your own map | Urbanism Lab
https://urbanism.uchicago.edu/courses/chicago-neighborhoods/build-your-own-map
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Adam Klasfeld
about 13 hours ago
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers informed a judge that DHS Secretary Mullin may have undermined the government’s attempt to send him to Liberia, by testifying he’d be “happy” to send him to Costa Rica.
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Chris Geidner
about 14 hours ago
This happened late last night. I got to work and told you what happened. It's what I've been doing in varying forms for more than 25 years, and it's essential work now—as our legacy media entities keeping failing us as often as our governmental and other corporate entities do. Support Law Dork.
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The Supreme Court's Republican appointees end civil rights redistricting protections
The majority invoked “our colorblind Constitution” to expand and transform April's Callais decision. Sotomayor, in dissent, highlighted the "grave harms" the majority "inflicts."
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-alabama-colorblind-redistricting
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
about 13 hours ago
Full thing here. It's written to be read, retold, remembered.
cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...
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https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb4d4b86971a884bd736a564/ellisopinion.pdf
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